voivode

voivode englanniksi

1. A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.

2. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes), having been defeated in a battle by the ''Vayvoda'' of ''Transylvania'', and taken Prisoner, was for three days together tied naked to a wooden horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him(nb..).

3. (RQ:Stoker Dracula)

4. An administrative chief in modern Poland.